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- After experiencing a wild life of sordidness, the young Pierre decides to quit this chaotic world, trading it for a search for inner peace and getting closer to God. During this quest, he's followed by a girl from Denmark, of whom he becomes friend for a while. However, Pierre isn't close to reach his spiritual enlightenment, since he's still tormented by visions, vivid dreams and strange hallucinations.
- Filmmaker Jonas Mekas creates an elegiac diary of a trip to his home country of Lithuania.
- Jonas Mekas spend his summer holiday with Jackie Kennedy, her sister's families and children.
- When a liberal idea emerges in a tyranny ruled society, power and wealth unite to bring it down.
- What is experimental film, and why is it called that? Artists and poet working in celluloid since before WWI have always found themselves in a no man's land. Excluded both from the art world and from the film industry, they bodly created a grassroots network for making and showing their films. They also created a profound body of work that continues to influence our culture. I wanted to share a few of the films I love and introduce you some of the free, radicals artists who made them.
- Peter Emmanuel Goldman's rarely screened debut, an underappreciated landmark of the New American Cinema, chronicles the lives of twenty-somethings adrift in New York City, finding tremendous pathos in the smallest moments: a furtive glance across a museum gallery, girls putting on makeup, a stroll beneath the pulsing lights of Times Square marquees. Composed with a lo-fi purity and bereft of diegetic sound, its shadowy images of youthful flaneurs are paired with evocatively hand-painted title cards and a dynamic soundtrack drawn from the artist's LPs that, when combined, conjure up a ballad of dependency like none other.
- Footage shot in 1950, this is the first movie shoot by Jonas Mekas when he came in New York, in the neighborhood of Brooklin. This is the first time he shoot his new home with his first Bolex.
- Evocation of painful memories of Jonas Mekas.
- Moves toward the vision of time when Heaven descends to earth and makes all earth one with Heaven ... when the outside becomes as inside, and the inside as the outside; when the male and the female become one and the same ... when the end returns to the beginning and the beginning finds completion in the end.
- Newton was the greatest of all the natural magicians, learned in matters musical, theological and in Apocalyptic literature. He believed bodies were composed of "certain aetheral spirits, or vapours"; one...is the ether, "the succus nutritius of the earth, or primary substance"; the second substance disseminated through the first, is light.
- Chronicle of a film in progress.
- un film sur la représentation. Comment on peut, par le truchement du cinéma, se décrire et décrire l'autre. La caméra comme miroir et comme troisième oeil. Au départ, un film épistolaire, une enquête et un voyage conçu comme un collage, entre documentaire et fiction. A l'arrivée un portrait de Boris Lehman entre 1989 et 1995, suite II de BABEL.
- A party is organized for Pedro, but he never seems to arrive. In between guests talk about Tam Tam and the end of the world. A very 'Buñuel-ish' underground film.
- A compilation video of the creator of butoh, Tatsumi Hijikata, featuring two short films from the 1960s: Anma (1963), and Rose Colored Dance (1966), the best of his early butoh. Directed by avant-garde filmmaker Takahiko Iimura.
- It tells the daily life of filmmaker Boris Lehman wandering in his own city of Brussels, who seeks to go to Mexico in the footsteps of Antonin Artaud, among the Tarahumara Indians.
- On the terrace of his regular café haunt in Paris' 14th arrondissement, Jean Rouch regales Noël Simsolo and Jackie Raynal with stories from the life of a self-described "amateur filmmaker".
- Since her childhood, Barbara dreams of the nocturnal visits by a mysterious firefighter.
- With its title taken from Georges Bataille's journal Acéphale (literally, a headless man, but figuratively expressing the need to go beyond rational ways of thinking), Deval's film is the most literary of the Zanzibar works. The film opens with an illustrative image: a head in the process of being shaved, in close up. This image is accompanied not by the sound of an electric razor but an electric saw, suggesting the need to achieve a tabula rasa by radical means. The story follows the adventures of a young man and his friends as they wander through a barely recognizable post-May 1968 Paris. In documenting the by-gone expressions and gestures of the '68 generation in France, Acéphale becomes something of an anthropological film that reveals the rites and beliefs of the ideological novitiates.
- Filmed in 1971, this film includes images of Moscow the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union.
- Critics place Berenice Abbott at the head of her class. She was one of the greatest American photographers of the 20th Century. From her portraits of the avant-garde taken in Paris during the 1920's, to her documentation of New York in the 1930's, to her science photography of the 1950s, and her studies of small-town America, Abbott's genius is in the incredible range of her work. Filmed during her 91st and 92nd years, the open-hearted Abbott takes us on a guided tour of her century. The tour teaches history, perseverance, courage, and single-minded dedication to one's chosen field. A brilliant film about a brilliant American artist!
- 40-minute morphing of Venus figures from all ages and civilizations, which have been collected by Jean-Jacques Lebel over the years. The video is part of Lebel's installation in time and space Reliquaire pour un culte de Vénus.
- Feature-length compilation program presenting 37 out of 41 original fluxfilms produced and directed in the 1960s by Fluxus artists, including George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Robert Watts, Paul Sharits, et al.
- This corpus of 16 short films was dug out from a hidden avant-garde film collection after 50 years. It is the very first and earliest Japanese pop art/underground film collection. The roots of 60's Japanese underground cinema are all here.
- A compilation of two films from the late 1960s by avant-garde filmmaker Takahiko Iimura: Flowers, 1968-1969 (1969), and Face (1968). Yayoi Kusama performs body painting with the collaboration of Akiko Iimura.
- An adaptation of the play by Jean Cocteau, "The Knights of the Round Table," in which Adolpho Arrietta plays the role of Merlin.
- Anticipating Taxi Driver a decade later, this short captures the sleaziness of the Times Square/42nd Street area with its riffraff,lurching drunks, and movie theatre marquees.
- A work in on-going progress. Painted, filmed and edited by Jo Ann Kaplan, documenting and reflecting on the artist's own aging, to be up-dated and developed at points in the future. The actual face, glimpsed occasionally, is getting older and more lined over time, but the record of its aging is not yet long enough to bear full witness. A self-portrait of the artist as an aging woman, and a work in progress to be continued for as long as there is time.
- Combines live photography and collage animation in one film. A cut-out of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sails over newspaper articles as they take place.
- Reunites two positive/negative structural films shot during the hippie movement and the black riots in the East Village, in New York City, in the late 1960s. Features Film Strips I (1970), and Film Strips II (1970).
- Using rapidly edited, superimposed images of plants, trees, water, the sun and the moon, Incantation weaves a dynamic tapestry of organic forms and textures, combining its images with a fierce rhythmic intensity so as to suggest a kind of natural force. The film was shot entirely in the camera, in 8mm, according to a pre-arranged, music-like score, and then blown up to 16mm using a home-made optical printer. The accompanying sound track, a chant taken from Islamic liturgy, is breath-based and brings the film into the form of a prayer.
- Sightseeing Stockholm offbeat through the lens of Jonas Mekas.
- "Inspired by the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Louis Zukofsky and Ezra Pound - Elder's latest film .. is a visually lush collage," and "ironic attempt to construct a Divine Comedy for modern times."
- ICPCE presents "Contre-Oeil: Peripheries of the Kinetic", an anthology on 3 DVD of Canadian and Québec experimental films and video art (1960-2011). From surrealist refractions to punk and dissident factions, the anthology brings together a unique collection of avant-garde film works. Tearing apart the barriers between eras, borders and mediums, the viewing experience encompass a total experience of the unstrapped brain of subterranean luminosity and high voltage experimentations.
- Tribute to Luis Bunuel's passion for drinking cocktails.
- Between 1979 and 2005, Raynal recorded (sometimes, out of modesty, only with sound) interviews with her parents and their entourage. Assembled together, they recount the life of a family defined by the Resistance and their engagement with the Left. And yet, Gougnette is not a political manifesto. The film is, rather, an expatriate filmmaker's tribute to her homeland of Provence.
- Actress Maggie Jennings talks about her collaboration with avant-garde filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin on the film Oblivion (2006).
- A compilation of 4 short films and videos on the Japanese theme of MA, which roughly translates to 'negative space', but evokes a deeper sense as a concept of space/time as one, or the interconnectiveness of space and time.
- Autour de Simon Lazard, 2003, 52' , video, color / sound For many, the name Lazard is synonymous with the banking dynasty that pioneered the modern investment bank with the invention of mergers and acquisitions. Jackie Raynal sets out one summer for the mountains of Haute-Savoie to meet Simon Lazard, one of the heirs of the group. Lazard, at the age of 100, wants to set down part of his story - the Occupation, his lands, and his pro-European views.